Clinician-led AI that automates payer workflows like prior authorization
Anterior (formerly Co:Helm) is a clinician-led AI platform that automates administrative clinical work for health insurers, including prior authorization, payment integrity, and risk adjustment. Founded in 2022 by physician Abdel Mahmoud, it raised $40M in February 2026 from NEA, Sequoia, FPV, and Kinnevik.
Healthcare📍 New York, NYFounded 2022
Current Valuation
Private
PRIVATE
IPO Outlookprivate
Is Anterior going public?
No. Anterior is private and has not filed to go public. There is no S-1 on file.
What is Anterior's valuation in 2026?
No confirmed valuation is on record for Anterior. The roster shows funding and investors where they are public; it does not estimate a mark.
Has Anterior filed an S-1?
No public S-1 is on file for Anterior.
Who are Anterior's investors?
Anterior's investors include NEA, Sequoia Capital, Neo, FPV Ventures, Kinnevik.
Can you buy Anterior stock?
No. Anterior is a private company — its shares are not listed on any exchange and there is no ticker. The routes to exposure are pre-IPO secondary marketplaces and funds (accredited investors), employee tender offers when the company runs one, and public companies with read-through exposure. QuantLogix maps every route it can verify for Anterior on its Pre-IPO Access Desk.
Answers are derived from the roster record shown on this page — filing status, last round and confirmed marks. Where the record is silent, the answer says so rather than guessing.
Company Profile
CEO
Abdel Mahmoud
Founded
2022
HQ
New York, NY
Total Raised
$64M
IPO Status
private
Fundraising Status
privateTotal raised $64M
Talent Signal
Hiring trend
▲ Hiring uptrend
+25% vs 2026-08
Open roles
5
via ashby
Product-build share
0%
engineering, research, product, design
Trajectory
expanding
go-to-market push — Only 0% of open roles build product — hiring is concentrated in sales/marketing/ops (2 of 5 open roles are sales).
No tracked executive churn; open roles trending up.
Open roles by month
Open roles by function
■ product-building ■ go-to-market / G&A
Clinical Solutions ArchitectTechnical Solutions ArchitectSenior Member of Technical StaffFrontier StrategistHead of People
Counted from Anterior's live job board as of 2026-09-14; role functions classified from posting titles. Open-role counts are an activity signal, not headcount. Refreshed monthly.
Private-company numbers are not real-time. Reflects publicly disclosed valuations from press releases, news reports, and tender offers as of recent date. Refreshed quarterly.